Dogman76
06-02-2009, 07:20 AM
Time for another report from Adrenalin Charters Fiji from the past 2 weeks.
The flooding in Nadi has gone now, leaving some damage to the main street and to a lot of the local's houses but Denarau Island has been left relatively untouched. There is very low occupancy here at the moment, and some amazing deals for flights and accommodation - I have never seen cheaper packages being advertised and basically everyone is gettng free room upgrades and having the place to themselves. It is only a 3hr flight from Brisbane, tke the kids out of school or get some boys together for an absolute bargain. PM me if you want some recommendations of where to stay in Fiji...
We used the downtime to repower our 3700 Kevlacat with new Yanmar 370's and she is running like a dream now. The floods took a lot of debris out and that has formed huge aeas of flotsam in the current lines, some which are football fields in size. One of the boys put on a snorkle and mask and jumped in under to see what was hapening there and apparently saw millions of bait fish being ripped to shreads by Mahi Mahi with huge Marlin down low. I am about to buy a tow cam camera with tag pole mount to be able to grab some of these underwater shots...
Of course trolling green and purpe lures picked up a good feed of Mahi Mahi - always appreciated and gave our clients a good show. A good sized Marlin was hooked on the outskirts of the flotsam on a small live bait (bite sized yellowfin) which gave a great fight on 15kg. We chased it down, got a tag in and released to end a great charter for our clients.
Yellowfin are also around, as well as heaps of Wahoo!!!! Fiji is famous for it's Wahoo around the reefs and seamounts, and you can pick up a world record here on light tackle if you are patient enough and heaps of leaders for all the bust off's. We got a reasonable one which gave plenty of food for the villagers.
We also did an overnight charter on Opulence, our 51 enclosed Riviera up into the islands, and stayed the night at Modiriki Island, where the movie 'Castaway' with Tom Hanks was filmed. The island is still uninhabited and is the most amazing, beautiful place in the world. It's not far from Denarau and a great day trip as you can keep the family (wife!!) happy with a day with the family, and troll for XXOS Spaniards up there, go for a swim, etc and pop for GT's around the reefs in this most magnificent part of the world.
Anyway hope the fish are biting in your part of the world, email me on ben@adrenalinfiji.com if you need any more details on this great part of the world.
Moce Mada (Goodbye Mate)
Ben
The flooding in Nadi has gone now, leaving some damage to the main street and to a lot of the local's houses but Denarau Island has been left relatively untouched. There is very low occupancy here at the moment, and some amazing deals for flights and accommodation - I have never seen cheaper packages being advertised and basically everyone is gettng free room upgrades and having the place to themselves. It is only a 3hr flight from Brisbane, tke the kids out of school or get some boys together for an absolute bargain. PM me if you want some recommendations of where to stay in Fiji...
We used the downtime to repower our 3700 Kevlacat with new Yanmar 370's and she is running like a dream now. The floods took a lot of debris out and that has formed huge aeas of flotsam in the current lines, some which are football fields in size. One of the boys put on a snorkle and mask and jumped in under to see what was hapening there and apparently saw millions of bait fish being ripped to shreads by Mahi Mahi with huge Marlin down low. I am about to buy a tow cam camera with tag pole mount to be able to grab some of these underwater shots...
Of course trolling green and purpe lures picked up a good feed of Mahi Mahi - always appreciated and gave our clients a good show. A good sized Marlin was hooked on the outskirts of the flotsam on a small live bait (bite sized yellowfin) which gave a great fight on 15kg. We chased it down, got a tag in and released to end a great charter for our clients.
Yellowfin are also around, as well as heaps of Wahoo!!!! Fiji is famous for it's Wahoo around the reefs and seamounts, and you can pick up a world record here on light tackle if you are patient enough and heaps of leaders for all the bust off's. We got a reasonable one which gave plenty of food for the villagers.
We also did an overnight charter on Opulence, our 51 enclosed Riviera up into the islands, and stayed the night at Modiriki Island, where the movie 'Castaway' with Tom Hanks was filmed. The island is still uninhabited and is the most amazing, beautiful place in the world. It's not far from Denarau and a great day trip as you can keep the family (wife!!) happy with a day with the family, and troll for XXOS Spaniards up there, go for a swim, etc and pop for GT's around the reefs in this most magnificent part of the world.
Anyway hope the fish are biting in your part of the world, email me on ben@adrenalinfiji.com if you need any more details on this great part of the world.
Moce Mada (Goodbye Mate)
Ben